Chapter 2. Using the Wireless LAN Configuration Utility
Chapter 2. Using the Wireless LAN Configuration Utility
The Wireless LAN Configuration Utility allows you to configure wireless clients, evaluate performance, and display the current status of a wireless network device.
2.1Viewing the Status Icon
The Wireless LAN Configuration Utility starts automatically and places a status icon on the Windows taskbar when Windows starts. The status icon is shown below.
If the status icon is not present do the following:
1.Click the Windows Start menu and click Programs.
2.Click the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2011B LAN USB software menu.
3.Click the Wireless LAN Configuration Utility.
The following colors on the taskbar icon show the status of the wireless device:
Color | Infrastructure mode | Ad hoc mode |
Green | Communicating successfully with an access | Connected to another |
| point. | wireless client. |
Yellow | Communicating with an access point but the | Yellow is not used in |
| signal strength and quality are not optimal. | this mode. |
Red | Searching for a new access point because it is: | Red is not used in this |
| • out of range of an access point. | mode. |
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| • connected to an access point, but |
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| attempting to find an access point with a |
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| better signal. |
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